/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15453304
>I've never heard an asian person saying this.
They're just being polite if you mean you poured soy sauce on rice in front of Chinese or Japanese people and they didn't say anything about it.
Asians during times of extreme poverty in the past didn't have enough (or any) meat and had to settle for soy sauce on rice to make a poor mockery of an actual meal.
Pic related shows a couple such comments, one from Malaysia and the other from China.
Also have this link to an almanac covering the topic of Guangzhou cuisine where it explicitly mentions rice with soy sauce as not only something eaten by Chinese but something eaten as a ubiquitous staple meal by the poor, which further corroborates what those other two comments were getting at.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/food/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/guangzhou-canton-cuisine
>Food is almost unthinkable without soy sauce. Rice by itself is not a meal, but rice with soy sauce is, and for the poor in earlier times it was, often the only meal of the day.

>>14301878
>Japs and chinks will claim it's wrong because the moistened rice doesn't stick together and thus can't be eaten with sticks.
People claim that's the reason sometimes, but it isn't. The real reason is these people during times of extreme poverty in the past didn't have enough (or any) meat and had to settle for soy sauce on rice to make a poor mockery of an actual meal.
Chinese restaurants have always given you soy sauce packets with your rice orders. And tamago gohan is exactly white rice and soy sauce with egg mixed in.
Rather than rice and soy sauce being some crazy Westerner thing that Asians are baffled by (despite what they pretend), it's instead something Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asians merely avoid because of poverty connotations. Pic related shows a couple such comments, one from Malaysia and the other from China.
Also have this link to an almanac covering the topic of Guangzhou cuisine where it explicitly mentions rice with soy sauce as not only something eaten by Chinese but something eaten as a ubiquitous staple meal by the poor, which further corroborates what those other two comments were getting at.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/food/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/guangzhou-canton-cuisine
>Food is almost unthinkable without soy sauce. Rice by itself is not a meal, but rice with soy sauce is, and for the poor in earlier times it was, often the only meal of the day.

>>12993586
Soy sauce.
>inb4 "you're not supposed to put soy sauce on rice!"
Bull fucking shit. I remain convinced this "rule" is modern meme nonsense. Chinese restaurants have always given you soy sauce packets with your rice orders. And tamago gohan is exactly white rice and soy sauce with egg mixed in.
What've found looking into this since the last thread is rather than rice and soy sauce being some crazy Westerner thing that Asians are baffled by, it's instead something Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asians merely avoid because of poverty connotations. Pic related shows a couple such comments, one from Malaysia and the other from China.
Also have this link to an almanac covering the topic of Guangzhou cuisine where it explicitly mentions rice with soy sauce as not only something eaten by Chinese but something eaten as a ubiquitous staple meal by the poor, which further corroborates what those other two comments were getting at.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/food/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/guangzhou-canton-cuisine
>Food is almost unthinkable without soy sauce. Rice by itself is not a meal, but rice with soy sauce is, and for the poor in earlier times it was, often the only meal of the day.